Dan Webster: Alan Grayson’s dirtbaggery has really helped my campaign

posted at 7:26 pm on September 29, 2010 by Allahpundit

I’m paraphrasing. As you’ll see, Webster is far too soft-spoken to call Teacups what he is, although the part about helping his campaign is dead on. Until this past weekend, I couldn’t have told you the name of Grayson’s GOP opponent. Now, thanks to his bottom-feeding, not only do I know who Webster is but he’s firmly in the “weep if we don’t take this seat” column on election night. Which, in an odd way, makes Grayson’s campaign ads of doom possibly the most effective of the cycle. It’s just that they’ve been effective in precisely the opposite way from how they were intended.

Total cash on hand as of early August: $105,000. Total funds raised in the last 48 hours: $100,000 and counting.

Daniel Webster, a Republican running for the House in Florida, sent out a fund-raising appeal Tuesday, according to a spokesman — not long after his Democratic opponent, Representative Alan Grayson, went up with an advertisement comparing Mr. Webster’s stances on women’s issues to the Taliban’s.

The response? Brian Graham, the Webster spokesman, says the campaign raised more than its original goal of $50,000 the first day the appeal went out. On Wednesday evening, a graphic on the candidate’s Web site appeared to show that the campaign had surpassed its revised goal of $100,000.

“Today has been better than we expected,” said Mr. Graham, who added that the campaign had also placed fund-raising pleas on Google and the Drudge Report. “We’ll be re-evaluating that goal again.”

Two clips here, one of Webster commenting on the grand backfire and the other of a new ad from Grayson showcasing the softer, cuddlier side of a guy prone to saying of Glenn Beck’s fans, “These are people who were wearing sheets over their heads 25 years ago.” I like to imagine that this new spot was filmed right after he gave the okay to smear his opponent as a Taliban-esque draft dodger who doesn’t love America. No wonder he’s in such a good mood.

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“You mention those are his words. Do you think you took them out of context, though?” WFTV reporter Jeff Deal asked Grayson.

“No,” Grayson replied.

and

Tea party activists say they’ll try to serve subpoenas today on Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson and Orlando political consultant Doug Guetzloe in an attempt to prove they conspired to create the Florida Tea Party and field a spoiler candidate in Grayson’s race.

Tea party activists began serving subpoenas Wednesday on Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, Orlando political consultant Doug Guetzloe and seven Florida Tea Party candidates in an attempt to prove Grayson conspired to create the political party to field a spoiler candidate in his own race.

Grayson also was the first president of IDT Corporation, a publicly traded billion-dollar telecommunications company.

In the 2000s, he worked as a plaintiffs’ attorney specializing in whistleblower fraud cases aimed at Iraq war contractors. One contractor, Custer Battles, employed individuals who were found guilty of making fraudulent statements and submitting fraudulent invoices on two contracts in 2003 the company had with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. On behalf of his clients, Grayson filed suit under the False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions. Grayson disclosed his attorney fees and costs for the case exceeded $4 million

My goodness….how did a douchebag like Grayson manage to get so much money?

terryannonline on September 29, 2010 at 8:09 PM

I haven’t done much research on him because he’s so repulsive, so odious that it’s difficult to find the motivation. He’s an attorney, and it looks like he’s the typical Dem, sleaze bag slip-and-fall type like John Edwards. Remember him?

And Grayson has five kids. Ugh…. There really are desperate women out there, I guess.

During 1988, when Grayson had just turned thirty and while working for the Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson law firm, he spent four days in the Psychiatric Institute of Washington. What the cause of this stay was is yet unclear, although testimony from co-workers suggests that Grayson was extremely combative with fellow employees, including slapping a female intern in the face. Grayson was released after PIW doctors declared him “not to be a threat to the public.”

I remember reading this nugget the last time he pulled an insane public display…..

My goodness….how did a douchebag like Grayson manage to get so much money?

terryannonline on September 29, 2010 at 8:09 PM

Precisely because he is a douchebag. His “Republicans want you to die” made the five year olds in the left blogosphere swoon. When they woke up, they all immediately maxed out their parents’ credit cards donating to his campaign.

Teacups is a particularly vile piece of work, but he is laughing – albeit insipidly and maniacally – all the way to the bank.

Makes me think of the scene in the Untouchables where Capone is crying at the beautiful opera when he’s told Sean Connery’s character has been murdered and he starts to smile through the tears. Very creepy.